Rising inequality has become the defining feature of our era. The crisis of the 1970s, the financial crisis of 2008, and the Covid-19 pandemic have shaped this inequality in different ways; however, we continue to analyze it with tools that have not been updated for far too long.

Based on the essay Housing. The new class divisionThis seminar proposes a new approach: in a rentier economy, the conflict has ceased to be focused on the world of work and is shifting towards real estate ownership, thus redefining the class structure.

From this perspective, we will explore the main challenges our cities will face in the coming years: Is it possible to achieve equality in a society where real estate ownership is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few and renting is becoming a source of widespread impoverishment? How can we interpret the subjectivities of that segment of the working class that inhabits the new residential neighborhoods (PAUs)? Are housing cooperatives the solution to housing problems? How is the world of digital platforms transforming the urban space of our cities? And finally: What are the steps to reclaim housing as a right?

Co-organized by: Grupo de Estudios Críticos Urbanos (GECU), Lengua de Trapo and Círculo de Bellas Artes

In collaboration with: Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC and Nomadic

Program

Wednesday March 12

Session 1: Housing: class division and rentier capitalism

Javier Gil (GECU/CSIC)

Session 2: The residential rental relationship as an exploitation relationship.  

Marta Ill (IDRA/ UOC/ Ghent University)

Wednesday March 19

Session 3: Daughters of the working-class periphery. Contradictions, housing and social reproduction in the PAUs

Inés Gutiérrez Cueli (GECU/UOC)

Session 4: The cooperative path to the right to housing
Lorenzo Vidal (GECU/UOC)

Wednesday March 26 

Session 5: The city on the mobile: the space between the digital and the urban

Pablo Martínez (GECU/UNED).

Session 6: Urban science fiction: Madrid DF or the fetish of the traditional

Jorge Sequera (GECU/UNED)

Information and registration

In-person modality*

The price in the modality In-person attendance costs €30 and includes a copy of the book with shipping to the Iberian Peninsula.

The rate for members del Círculo It will cost €24, and your copy of the book must be collected exclusively from the Membership Office.el Círculo.